Atsuhime

Name: Atsuhime
Genre: Drama
Rating: 8.3
Cast: Aoi Miyazaki, Eita Nagayama, Maki Horikita, Ikki Sawamura, Kimiko Yo

篤姫 (2008)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 50

Episode runtime: 45 min

Drama

Japan

NHK BS1, NHK

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Production

NHK

Premiere

6 January 2008

Last episode

14 December 2008

Status

Completed

Creators

Tomiko Miyao

Producer

Yashiki Yotaro

Actors

Okatsu / Atsu-hime

Kimotsuki Naogoro

Princess Kazu

Komatsu Kiyomichi

Hisa-hime

Honjuin

Oryu

Tokugawa Iesachi

All actors and roles (10)

Short description

The 47th NHK Taiga Drama is a life story of Princess Atsu, who was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, then called Satsuma, and became the wife of Tokugawa Iesada, the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. She accedes to the highest rank in Ooku, the inner palace of the Edo castle where women related to the reigning shogun resided. Iesada dies soon after their marriage and Atsuhime assumes the name Tenshoin at the age of 23. She exerts herself for the Tokugawa clan and for the nation during the upheaval in the Meiji Restoration, headed by those from Satsuma.